First Language Acquisition Syllabus

1. The History of Child language studies (Ch2: David Ingram)

2. Stages of language acquisition (Ch3: David Ingram)
3. Sound Production (Encyclopaedia of Language: David Crystal)
4. Early Language Acquisition (Ch10: David Carroll)
5. Process of Language Acquisition (Ch12: David Carroll)
6. Later Language Acquisition (Ch 11: David Carroll)
7. The period of simple sentences: acquisition of grammatical morphemes
(Ch 9: David Ingram)

December 2022 Questions

1. History of Child Language Acquisition, research methods used to study
language development in children
2. Period of diary studies and the major works(Ch2: David Ingram)
3. Stages of child language acquisition by Stern, Margaret, Brown (Ch3:
Ingram)
4. Early word comprehension and production during single word utterances
5. Difference between large sample studies and longitudinal studies(Ch2:
Ingram)
6. Prelinguistic stages of language production
7. Major studies of grammatical development during period of first word
combination
8. Onset of phonemic perception and production during period of single word
utterances
9. Various theories of child language acquisition

10. Acquisition of grammatical morphemes during period of simple

sentences (Ch 9: David Ingram)

August 2022 Questions

1. Period of diary studies and the major works(Ch2: Ingram)
2. Prelinguistic stages of language production
3. Stages of child language acquisition by Stern, Margaret, Brown (Ch3:
Ingram)
4. Early phonological & morphological development of language in Early
Language Acquisition (Ch10: David Carroll)
5. Difference between large sample studies and longitudinal studies(Ch2:
Ingram)
6. Early grammatical develop in early language acquisition period (Ch10:
Carroll)
7. Grammatical development in later language acquisition period (Ch 11:
Carroll)
8. Importance of linguistics environment in process of language acquisition
(Ch12: David Carroll)
9. Discuss any three
a. Behaviourist Theory(Ch2: David Ingram)
b. Cognitive factors in the process of language learning(Ch12:
Carroll)
c. Innate linguistic mechanism(Ch12: David Carroll)
d. Later syntactic development(Ch 11: David Carroll)
e. Discourse process in later language acquisition (Ch 11: Carroll)

Repeated Question

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